How Much Beef Is in a Half Cow? Weights, Cuts and Space

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How Much Beef Is in a Half Cow? Weights, Cuts and Space

A half beef share from Shipley Farms runs about 175 pounds of packaged beef across 26 cuts. That is the short answer. The longer one is about freezer space, which size actually suits you, and which si

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Shipley Farms

October 14, 2026 · 4 min read

How to Cook a Standing Rib Roast: Sizes, Times, Resting

Holidays and Gatherings

How to Cook a Standing Rib Roast: Sizes, Times, Resting

A standing rib roast is the rib section left whole, bones in, cooked as one piece. It is the same muscle as a ribeye steak, and it feeds a table instead of a person.

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Shipley Farms

October 14, 2026 · 4 min read

Holidays and Gatherings

A Better Way to Buy Beef Gifts and Stock the Freezer

Most people place two orders in December: one for other people and one, a fortnight later and slightly panicked, for themselves.

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Shipley Farms

October 3, 2026 · 3 min read

Cuts and Comparisons

Beef Cuts Explained: A Complete Guide

There are forty or fifty cuts on a beef and most people can name six. You do not need to memorize the rest.

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Shipley Farms

October 3, 2026 · 4 min read

Gifts and Giving

Beef Subscriptions as a Gift: What Arrives, and When

A subscription is the one gift that keeps introducing itself. It also asks more of the person receiving it than a single box does, so it is worth being honest about who it suits before you send one.

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Shipley Farms

October 3, 2026 · 3 min read

Cuts and Comparisons

Beef Tenderloin vs Filet Mignon: What Is the Difference?

This is a naming question rather than a beef question, and it has a clean answer. The tenderloin is a long muscle that runs along the spine. Filet mignon is a steak cut from it.

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Shipley Farms

October 3, 2026 · 4 min read

Cuts and Comparisons

Best Beef Cuts for Slow Cooking

Slow cooking is not a way of rescuing cheap beef. It is the correct method for the cuts that did the most work, and it is where the best flavor on the animal lives.

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Shipley Farms

October 3, 2026 · 3 min read

Cuts and Comparisons

Best Beef Cuts for Smoking

Smoking rewards exactly the cuts that a hot pan ruins. Hours of low heat and smoke do something no other method does, and the cuts that suit it are the ones that worked hardest.

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Shipley Farms

October 3, 2026 · 3 min read

Cuts and Comparisons

Best Beef Cuts for Steak Sandwiches

A steak sandwich fails in one of two ways: the beef pulls out of the bread in a single strip, or it is so lean it tastes of nothing.

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Shipley Farms

October 3, 2026 · 4 min read

Cuts and Comparisons

Best Beef Cuts for Stir-Fry, and How to Slice Them

A stir-fry cooks in about ninety seconds, which rules out anything that needs time and makes the knife more important than the cut. Thin, across the grain, and a pan hotter than feels sensible.

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Shipley Farms

October 3, 2026 · 4 min read

Cuts and Comparisons

Best Beef Cuts for Tacos

Tacos are forgiving, which is why they are the dish most people cook on a Tuesday. The cut you choose decides how long it takes and almost nothing else, so pick by the time you actually have.

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Shipley Farms

October 3, 2026 · 4 min read

Gifts and Giving

Best Beef Gifts

The best beef gift is the one that gets eaten. That sounds obvious until you look at what most gifts do, which is sit somewhere waiting to be dealt with.

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Shipley Farms

October 3, 2026 · 4 min read

Cuts and Comparisons

Best Cuts of Beef for Grilling

A grill is hot, uneven and hard to take back. That favors cuts with fat to spare and penalizes lean ones. Here is what to put over the fire depending on whether you are cooking for two or for twenty.

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Shipley Farms

October 3, 2026 · 3 min read

Gifts and Giving

Best Gifts for Meat Lovers

Buying for someone who knows food is harder than buying for someone who does not, because the obvious gifts are things they already have opinions about. The way through is not to spend more.

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Shipley Farms

October 3, 2026 · 4 min read

Gifts and Giving

Best Gifts for People Who Love to Grill

Everyone who grills has been given a spatula set.

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Shipley Farms

October 3, 2026 · 3 min read

Gifts and Giving

Best Meat Gift Boxes

A meat gift box is a good gift and an easy one to oversize. The two things that decide whether it lands are what is in it and whether the person has anywhere to put it.

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Shipley Farms

October 3, 2026 · 4 min read

Cuts and Comparisons

Best Steak Cuts for Pan-Searing

A pan is the most controllable heat most people have and the most limited. It is small, it is flat, and it loses temperature the moment something cold lands on it.

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Shipley Farms

October 3, 2026 · 3 min read

Gifts and Giving

Best Steak Gift Boxes

A steak box is an easy gift to send and a surprisingly easy one to get wrong, because the instinct is to send the most expensive thing in the shop.

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Shipley Farms

October 3, 2026 · 4 min read

Cuts and Comparisons

Brisket vs Chuck Roast: Which Should You Cook?

Brisket has the reputation and chuck has the better odds. Both are hard-working muscles that reward hours of low heat, and one of them will forgive you if you get distracted.

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Shipley Farms

October 3, 2026 · 4 min read

Cooking Techniques

Can You Cook Steak From Frozen?

We ship frozen, so this question comes up a lot.

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Shipley Farms

October 3, 2026 · 4 min read

Blog

How Much Beef Is in a Half Cow? Weights, Cuts and Space

How to Cook a Standing Rib Roast: Sizes, Times, Resting

A Better Way to Buy Beef Gifts and Stock the Freezer

Beef Cuts Explained: A Complete Guide

Beef Subscriptions as a Gift: What Arrives, and When

Beef Tenderloin vs Filet Mignon: What Is the Difference?

Best Beef Cuts for Slow Cooking

Best Beef Cuts for Smoking

Best Beef Cuts for Steak Sandwiches

Best Beef Cuts for Stir-Fry, and How to Slice Them

Best Beef Cuts for Tacos

Best Beef Gifts

Best Cuts of Beef for Grilling

Best Gifts for Meat Lovers

Best Gifts for People Who Love to Grill

Best Meat Gift Boxes

Best Steak Cuts for Pan-Searing

Best Steak Gift Boxes

Brisket vs Chuck Roast: Which Should You Cook?

Can You Cook Steak From Frozen?